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The original readymade project box, the Altoids tin (or, more generically and less lawsuit-inducing, the “mint tin”) is ever near and dear to our hearts. Reuse ‘em when the mints are gone, or grab a few of our “subversively branded” (oxymoron, anyone?) boxes from Maker Shed.

I am descended from 5,000 generations of tool-using primates. Also, I went to college and stuff. I am a long-time contributor to MAKE magazine and makezine.com. My work has also appeared in ReadyMade, c’t – Magazin für Computertechnik, and The Wall Street Journal.